HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

A Most Peculiar Test Drive (teslamotors.com)

1859 points by reneherse on Feb 14, 2013 | 578 comments

2.

Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails (rapgenius.com)

1763 points by tomlemon on Feb 13, 2013 | 423 comments

3.

Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 (bombermine.com)

1394 points by cygnus on Feb 27, 2013 | 201 comments

4.

Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling (hacks.mozilla.org)

1388 points by rnyman on Feb 4, 2013 | 69 comments

5.

Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling (blog.chromium.org)

1386 points by robin_reala on Feb 4, 2013 | 178 comments

6.

Why HN was down

1049 points by pg on Feb 18, 2013 | 287 comments

7.

Opera moves to WebKit (my.opera.com)

938 points by bdash on Feb 13, 2013 | 282 comments

8.

I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora (hanselman.com)

902 points by johns on Feb 14, 2013 | 261 comments

9.

Meteorite crash in Russia (rt.com)

862 points by SuccintWork on Feb 15, 2013 | 295 comments

10.

We Found Our Son in the Subway (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

839 points by mccolin on Feb 28, 2013 | 175 comments

11.

No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app (tommorris.org)

799 points by k33l0r on Feb 4, 2013 | 218 comments

12.

The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (network-tools.com)

770 points by fpp on Feb 9, 2013 | 78 comments

13.

Google Glass (google.com)

763 points by robin_reala on Feb 20, 2013 | 574 comments

14.

Packets of Death (blog.krisk.org)

734 points by quentusrex on Feb 6, 2013 | 113 comments

15.

Civilized Discourse Construction Kit (codinghorror.com)

727 points by sosuke on Feb 5, 2013 | 270 comments

16.

Learn Git Branching (pcottle.github.com)

717 points by redDragon on Feb 16, 2013 | 137 comments

17.

I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored (log.nadim.cc)

701 points by joshfraser on Feb 9, 2013 | 341 comments

18.

Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks (37signals.com)

648 points by mapleoin on Feb 22, 2013 | 442 comments

19.

Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO (jottit.com)

646 points by robbiet480 on Feb 28, 2013 | 186 comments

20.

Employees leave managers, not companies (alaisterlow.com)

625 points by kirkus on Feb 6, 2013 | 257 comments

21.

How I Fired Myself (edu.mkrecny.com)

620 points by mkrecny on Feb 27, 2013 | 411 comments

22.

Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters (robohub.org)

619 points by eguizzo on Feb 21, 2013 | 133 comments

23.

Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor (cmx.io)

586 points by dr_win on Feb 12, 2013 | 109 comments

24.

I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA (reddit.com)

579 points by taylorbuley on Feb 11, 2013 | 146 comments

25.

Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S ‘fake,’ citing vehicle log data (thenextweb.com)

568 points by sethbannon on Feb 11, 2013 | 485 comments

26.

Python trademark at risk in Europe (pyfound.blogspot.ca)

547 points by arcatek on Feb 14, 2013 | 163 comments

27.

Ruby 2.0.0 Released (ruby-lang.org)

546 points by haven on Feb 24, 2013 | 285 comments

28.

Ubuntu on tablets (ubuntu.com)

528 points by jrgifford on Feb 19, 2013 | 259 comments

29.

DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political (tarensk.tumblr.com)

520 points by rrbrambley on Feb 26, 2013 | 148 comments

30.

Why was my email leaked? (forums.dropbox.com)

513 points by chmars on Feb 28, 2013 | 257 comments